40.9% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gunnedah · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Gunnedah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Gunnedah since 2011, with 40.9% of residents arriving in the last five years. This shift is driven largely by a significant increase in people arriving from overseas, making the area much more mobile than most similar places.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.9% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure has risen 6.0 percentage points since 2011 and is a little above the New South Wales rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 21.2% of the population, a figure that is well above the national average of 14.5%. This proportion has risen 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
21.2% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Gunnedah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114013/gunnedah/topic/mobility-location